Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoid strong tides , offshore winds , poor visibility or sailing in the dark . |
| 2 | It 's back to the stationary bike or jogging in the pool . |
| 3 | Perhaps there is some activity you have often thought you would try ‘ sometime ’ : Is now the opportunity to begin dog-training , Jogging , meditation , writing to The Times or writing for the radio ? |
| 4 | Prior to the Tektronix announcement , such users were confined to an IBM system using the PS/2 board or waiting for the Network Computing Devices Inc plug-in board option that is announced but not yet available . |
| 5 | Only when you have unwound somewhat and are back in balance are you able to progress to a more powerful strategy that involves insight , persistence or talking to the headteacher . |
| 6 | Always grumbling , he had threatened them with all kinds of dreadful punishment if he had caught them walking in St Andrew 's churchyard or sheltering in the porch . |
| 7 | It was a great feeling to be a competitor , just to get the pleasure of so many people looking at our installation or listening to the quality of sound . |
| 8 | " You get up so early and when you re not in chapel , you 're scrubbing or polishing or digging in the garden . " |
| 9 | As I walked out of another final-year class at fox Primary , the pupils were building complex models out of balsawood or working on the theories of gearing with big pieces of plastic Meccano . |
| 10 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 11 | If I tried to picture Mum now like she really is , getting a Sainsbury 's pizza out of the freezer in the kitchen or doing up the seatbelt of her silver Ford Fiesta , I could n't . |
| 12 | The first concerns behaviours which are followed by the termination or cessation of unpleasant environmental events — for example , when shutting a window reduces the volume of traffic noise or turning on the heating reduces the discomfort from cold . |
| 13 | Your speedo needs changing for a LWB or recalibrating by a specialist company . |
| 14 | • For minor burns and scalds , cool by holding the affected area under cold running water for ten minutes or immersing in a bowl of cold water . |
| 15 | The customers were all men , heavily robed , standing in groups or leaning on the counter with no apparent desire to be served . |
| 16 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 17 | The Irish enforced a ‘ Ban ’ on British sports in the sense that those who wished to play Gaelic football or hurling under the aegis of the Gaelic Athletic Association could not also play football or cricket . |
| 18 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 19 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 20 | Others say they were unable to comply with the surgeons instructions that they undertake no lifting or pulling for a period of time after the operation . |
| 21 | to the last meeting , it was my understanding the same as everybody el everybody else that we have not the funds or budgeting for a camera in this financial year and that approved . |
| 22 | Being in a band is as valid as anything like getting an apprenticeship or working in a furniture factory , which were the options open to me . |
| 23 | 1807 " The Meeting having revised the Consideration of last year 's resolution respecting the Restriction as to the Liquor … now think that this restriction is not necessary … the Constables shall also be prohibited from Eating or Drinking at the Expence of the Publick . " |
| 24 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 25 | Lifting weights or exercising in the college gym three times per week will help build strength . |
| 26 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 27 | Some were part of my social life as well , even if this was simply lunching together in the staff canteen or dropping into the pub for a drink on the way home . |
| 28 | They are men who rationally weigh up the advantage of conformity to criminal demands or staying on the path of righteousness ; for the most part they choose the former simply because it does not weigh on their conscience and because it seems more likely to secure economic and career advancement within the corporation . |
| 29 | This , Lukes argued , is the most insidious form of power in that we can be manipulated into a course of action or believing in a set of values without realising it . |
| 30 | Further protection is given to other creditors ( as Mr Berlyn mentions in his letter ) in that once a winding-up petition has been presented , the court may order that any other pending action or proceeding against the company should be restrained . |